COVERED: a week-by-week look at the political and legislative developments that led to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago. Bob Rosenblatt, Academy senior fellow and former Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent will report on the people and the maneuvers that led to this major expansion of social insurance.

Long-Term Care

Long-term care means assistance with things that healthy, independent persons can do without help. Long-term care is a vague concept, not specific like a broken arm, or a tumor in the lung. In many ways long-term care is defined by what it is not, rather than what it is. See the links below for an in-depth discussion.